.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 254 132
Rank change year-on-year -74 -122 +33
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 411 442 1,874
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 1.19% 2.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.34% 5.69% 11.07%
Number of salaries quoted 377 391 1,785
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,620 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,690 7,773 16,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.06% 20.93% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,805 5,916 14,141
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,295 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% +10.49% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -56 120 £55,000 - 39
London -64 78 £80,000 - 48
North West -22 66 £55,000 -8.33% 22
South East -44 66 £60,000 +14.29% 51
Midlands -39 62 £65,000 +23.81% 21
East Midlands -16 47 £65,000 +23.81% 9
South West -24 44 £55,000 -24.14% 16
East of England -16 33 £90,000 +80.00% 26
North East -23 29 £65,000 +44.44% 7
Yorkshire -73 25 £42,500 -29.17% 11
West Midlands -42 15 £65,000 +11.59% 12
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.70%) IIS
3 2 (0.49%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 244 (59.37%) Azure
2 85 (20.68%) AWS
3 64 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (11.68%) Serverless
5 44 (10.71%) SaaS
6 37 (9.00%) Power Platform
7 35 (8.52%) GitHub
8 33 (8.03%) Azure Logic Apps
9 23 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (4.87%) Azure Functions
11 17 (4.14%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
12 16 (3.89%) Power Automate
12 16 (3.89%) PowerApps
13 15 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (3.41%) Amazon S3
14 14 (3.41%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (3.41%) Azure AKS
14 14 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.73%) Internet
2 2 (0.49%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.24%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (37.71%) SQL Server
2 52 (12.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 32 (7.79%) Power BI
4 31 (7.54%) NoSQL
5 26 (6.33%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.16%) DynamoDB
7 13 (3.16%) MySQL
8 10 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (2.43%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.22%) Redis
10 2 (0.49%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
11 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (12.17%) Git
2 8 (1.95%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.22%) JIRA
5 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.73%) NUnit
6 3 (0.73%) Vite
7 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.49%) MSTest
7 2 (0.49%) webpack
8 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.24%) Selenium
8 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 59 (14.36%) Finance
2 45 (10.95%) Social Skills
3 15 (3.65%) Games
4 13 (3.16%) Law
5 11 (2.68%) Banking
6 10 (2.43%) Public Sector
7 8 (1.95%) Front Office
7 8 (1.95%) Retail
8 7 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (1.46%) Automotive
10 4 (0.97%) Advertising
10 4 (0.97%) Legal
10 4 (0.97%) Marketing
11 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.73%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.49%) Local Government
12 2 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 293 (71.29%) Developer
2 133 (32.36%) .NET Developer
3 117 (28.47%) Senior
4 102 (24.82%) Software Developer
5 74 (18.00%) C# Developer
6 73 (17.76%) Senior Developer
7 54 (13.14%) Lead
8 52 (12.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 51 (12.41%) Software Engineer
10 48 (11.68%) C# .NET Developer
11 30 (7.30%) Lead Developer
12 28 (6.81%) .NET Software Engineer
12 28 (6.81%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (6.33%) Senior Software Developer
14 24 (5.84%) .NET Software Developer
15 23 (5.60%) Applications Developer
15 23 (5.60%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 21 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (4.87%) Lead Software Developer
17 20 (4.87%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (100.00%) .NET
2 134 (32.60%) ASP.NET
3 88 (21.41%) React
4 86 (20.92%) .NET Framework
5 61 (14.84%) RESTful
6 58 (14.11%) Blazor
6 58 (14.11%) HTML
7 55 (13.38%) ASP.NET Core
7 55 (13.38%) CSS
8 53 (12.90%) Entity Framework
9 45 (10.95%) AngularJS
10 40 (9.73%) Vue
11 29 (7.06%) Node.js
11 29 (7.06%) REST
12 25 (6.08%) ASP.NET MVC
13 22 (5.35%) ASP.NET Web API
14 17 (4.14%) JSON
15 14 (3.41%) Microsoft Graph
16 13 (3.16%) AWS CDK
16 13 (3.16%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (4.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 15 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.68%) Sports Betting
6 10 (2.43%) Hedge funds
6 10 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.46%) 3D Graphics
8 5 (1.22%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.22%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (0.97%) Social Network
10 3 (0.73%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.49%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.49%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.16%) VMS
2 7 (1.70%) Windows
3 5 (1.22%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (33.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 132 (32.12%) Agile
3 112 (27.25%) Software Engineering
4 109 (26.52%) CI/CD
5 97 (23.60%) DevOps
6 72 (17.52%) Microservices
7 62 (15.09%) MVC
8 59 (14.36%) Containerisation
9 53 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (11.68%) SDLC
11 37 (9.00%) Clean Code
11 37 (9.00%) Collaborative Culture
12 34 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
12 34 (8.27%) OO
13 33 (8.03%) Mentoring
14 32 (7.79%) Analytics
15 31 (7.54%) Collaborative Working
15 31 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (7.30%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 361 (87.83%) C#
2 174 (42.34%) SQL
3 117 (28.47%) JavaScript
4 59 (14.36%) TypeScript
5 33 (8.03%) PowerShell
6 17 (4.14%) Python
7 12 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 10 (2.43%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.46%) Bash
9 6 (1.46%) Java
10 4 (0.97%) Bicep
11 3 (0.73%) PHP
11 3 (0.73%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) F#
Qualifications
1 28 (6.81%) Degree
2 11 (2.68%) AWS Certification
2 11 (2.68%) AWS Certified Developer
2 11 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (2.68%) Security Cleared
3 6 (1.46%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.65%) QA
2 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.49%) GDPR
2 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.49%) ITGC
2 2 (0.49%) SLA
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (19.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.79%) Terraform
3 2 (0.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 124 (30.17%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.92%) Adobe
3 7 (1.70%) Google
4 5 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (0.97%) Facebook
6 3 (0.73%) Workday
7 2 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.49%) Foundry
7 2 (0.49%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.24%) Apple
8 1 (0.24%) Databricks
8 1 (0.24%) IBM
8 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle
8 1 (0.24%) Sony
8 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.24%) YouTube